nonmimetic
- adjective
- /nɒnˈmɪmɛtɪk/
- Specialized
:
no mimético
- Many modern sculptures are nonmimetic, focusing on shape and material rather than depicting recognizable subjects.
Examples
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Transcribing a ninth-century charter into a twelfth-century codex required that the nonmimetic visual characteristics of that text undergo translation.
Academic text (1999) -
The solution to such radical self-doubt is not, however, to scrap narratological categories per se, but to integrate them within a mimetically motivated reading model that encompasses the realistic standard case but equally allows for nonmimetic and antimimetic discourses.
Academic text (1994) -
The Narcissism of Nonmimetic Style
Academic text (2001) -
Schapiro described the format—in particular the nonmimetic elements, such as the shape of the field, proportions, axes, and so on—as an expressive factor that influences our sense of the image represented.
Academic text (1999) -
The painting was celebrated for its nonmimetic style, with bold colors and abstract forms that deviated from reality.
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In her latest exhibition, the artist showcases nonmimetic works that challenge viewers to interpret art beyond the confines of realism.
Synonyms
35
7.1
Art that uses shapes and colours instead of real objects
11
5.9
Made to follow an artistic look rather than appear natural
1
8.9
Art that does not show real things and focuses on color and shape
1
8.3
Art that does not show real people or things but uses shapes and colors
Art that does not show real people or things but uses shapes and colors
Not trying to show life as it really is, often using dream images or symbols
Not showing things as they are in real life, often like a dream
Not copying other people's work and showing a new style
Partly not realistic art that shows shapes like people or animals
Not like real life and missing natural feeling
Antonyms
How Representational
1
7.0
65
4.1
8
6.7
11
5.9
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word nonmimetic comes from non- meaning 'not' and mimetic, from an old Greek word mimesis meaning 'imitation', the same idea you find in mime and mimic. So, something nonmimetic does not try to copy real life and is more abstract or not meant to show real things.